Nokia 5100 Cell Phone User Manual


 
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2 An overview of functions
MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE (MMS)
Your phone is able to send and receive multimedia messages made up of
text and pictures. You may also be able to receive polyphonic ringing tones.
You can also save pictures and ringing tones to personalize your phone.
See “Multimedia messages” on page 63 for more information.
POLYPHONIC SOUND (MIDI)
Polyphonic sounds are used in ringing tones and message alert tones. They
consist of several sound components played at the same time, like an actual
melody through a speaker. Your phone has sound components from over
40 instruments that can be used for polyphonic sounds and the phone can
play four instruments simultaneously. The phone supports scalable polyphonic
MIDI (SP-MIDI) format.
You can receive polyphonic ringing tones using multimedia service,
(see “Read and reply to a multimedia message” on page 67), or download
them to the gallery menu, see “Gallery (Menu 7)” on page 108 for
more information.
GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE (GPRS)
GPRS technology allows mobile phones to send and receive data over a
mobile network. Applications such as mobile Internet, MMS, text messaging,
and Java
TM
use GPRS. Your phone supports up to three simultaneous
GPRS connections.
For more information on GPRS, see “GPRS” on page 132. Also, consult the
PC Connectivity Guide. The PC Connectivity Guide, Nokia PC Suite, and all
related software can be downloaded from the U.S. Mobile Phone products
section of
www.nokia.com
.
Before you can use GPRS technology
Contact your network operator or service provider for availability and
subscription to the GPRS service.
Save the GPRS settings for each of the applications used over GPRS.